Notices by Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone)

Just watched ten minutes of the Trump/Zelenskyy/Vance meeting in the White House and what an utter fucking embarrassment to watch two petulant children bully Ukraine into surrender and complain that they're not being thanked enough for it. Just utterly pathetic from the narcissitic shitheads running the USA now.

"did you even say 'thank you' once since this meeting started?!" from Vance was the most petulant shitty thing you hear abusers say to the abused. It's like 80s movie rich guy villain shit.

truer words have never been spoken

The Canadian border is only a couple hundred miles from my home but once you cross it there will be things you will never understand

I woke up to many people posting this but it's wrong.

These are USDS staffers hired before Trump arrived back in DC. They are highly principled experts building digital systems to help people. They quit rather than work on DOGE bullshit coup things. They were never part of DOGE.

This isn't a "win" for people who dislike what DOGE is doing. These aren't DOGE workers who suddenly grew a conscience, they are good people who didn't want any part of doing terrible work under Elon Musk or Trump

I've gotten to know half a dozen people at USDS and I visited the offices a few years ago. Everyone I met there was the kindest, coolest kind of person you'd find in tech, and they were all there to do great work on what are usually terrible government websites. They were usually people that worked in startups and wanted to do something more meaningful with their talents.

The free COVID tests you got from USPS that all fit on a single-page form? That was USDS.

lmao

I'm watching the announcement of how California is going to kill its high speed rail project and there's resounding boos while the people on stage (the stupid assholes) saying it's a waste and laughing at the thousands of protestors. https://abc7.com/post/transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-make-announcement-california-high-speed-rail-project-los-angeles-thursday/15937236/

The boos are so loud you can barely hear the bullshit coming out of the podium, but they're saying it's a giant waste and ugly scar on California, it's so fucking stupid to not build high speed rail and make everyone fly on a stupid ass plane from LA to SF.

It's amazing and refreshing to see Trump's cabinet members facing backlash immediately in front of their faces. This will become the new norm. They're now chanting "coward! coward!" in unison.

It's glorious. These ghouls need to know how their cruel decisions affect people directly, to their faces.

Load this feed up, and jump to about 12 minutes into the press conference, when they first announce the killing of the LA to SF rail line. The boos continue for the remainder of the event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlUJgecWJtA

@feld I had to whitelist my blog's domain and then it worked.

Testing out the new attribution features of mastodon on my blog posts: https://a.wholelottanothing.org/links-for-february-18-2025/

Opening a new Google account, you get blasted with Gemini AI bullshit upsells at every click. I've had a Gmail account since 2004, so I had no idea what the first day experience was like, but it's "let AI write your emails" and "shouldn't you be using AI to finish this sentence?" all the time.

A thing me and my fellow liberals need to let go of is pointing out right wing hypocrisy. It feels good when we notice it but they have not given a fuck about their own hypocrisy for the last 50+yrs.

@jimw I know from experience that programming around timezones is the pits, especially with all the exceptions and handful of weird 30min shifts. At Slack, it was a rotating job in engineering no one seemed to last more than 6 months working on TZs

I got added to a new org's Google Apps account this week. I load up the all-team calendar and see there's a regular meeting on Wednesday at 10am.

Around 9am today, I double-check my calendar and the meeting was already over because it started at 8am.

The company is in the central time zone but Google Calendar failed to reflect that for over 48hrs.

Great job, Google.

Sure, restaurant in Seattle I only ate at once in 2016, I really want to know what your valentines day promotion is. Also, that hotel in San Diego that I stayed one night in 2012, go ahead and ping me twice weekly with what's going on in Del Mar, California.

@jeff a car dealer I leased a EV from used to send me oil change coupons

The number of businesses that I haven't bought anything from in 8-10 years that are suddenly emailing me and my spouse this month out of the blue makes me think Square or Salesforce just launched some sort of deep lens feature that identifies customers from very old sales records.